The Poverty Bay Herald AND East Coast News Letter. PUBLISHED EVERY EVENING. Thursday, October 23, 1879.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume VI, Issue 932, 23 October 1879, Page 2

The Poverty Bay Herald AND East Coast News Letter. PUBLISHED EVERY EVENING. Thursday, October 23, 1879.

A public meeting, of late, m Gisborne, appears to afford an opportunity for half-tipsy and whole tipsy men to make themselves personally offensive and abusive to those, who, for some i*eason, may have run.counter to their views, or may otherwise have opposed them m some way or other. The occasion is also permitted to be made one m which the larrikin element is allowed to develop itself m all its most objectionable features. It would be "a sorry day for Gisborne if those who conducted themselves m so shameful and disordei'ly a manner last night reflected, m the remotest degree, on. the intelligence or respectability of the townspeople. The Repudiationists adopted the tactics which might be expected of them. They dreaded argument which they were unable to meet, and censure they knew they would receive, as they well deserved, so they packed the meeting with ' hallooing boys, stationed at the end of the ball, and with three or four rowdy men placed m the body of it. It was all very disreputable, and no more than this can be said of it. But if the Repudiationists think they can prevent public opinion being expressed by the simple process of clamor, and the drowning of the voices of those opposed to them, we fancy they will find themselves very much mistaken. However, m future, when those resident m Gisborne or settled outside of it, may desire to meet together for their mutual interests, such meetings will have to be convened by private circulai-, m order that larrikin boys, and roughs, and half or whole drunken men be excluded. The meeting convened last evening was intended to subserve a good purpose, but its object was frustrated by those who m their interests are opposed to the peace and prosperity of the Bay.